Gardener a04*

Job Details

Position Overview

Duties

Performs a variety of seasonal gardening tasks to ensure neatness and cleanliness of the landscaping areas around Marine Corps Community Services building and properties aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.  Responsible for maintaining and improving outdoor spaces, including lawns and grounds. Duties typically include trimming, edging, weeding, applying mulch, blowing leaves from sidewalks, fertilizing, and irrigating various plants, as well as operating and maintaining landscaping equipment.   Pruning shrubs and low trees to improve the growth habit or remove damaged branches.  Picking up trash, debris, and fallen branches.  May measure and mix specified amounts of fungicides, insecticides, and herbicides following instructions on product labels and in a manner consistent with environmental instructions.

Observes environmental and safety rules and regulations.  May drive a motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of up to 10,000 pounds throughout an installation under limited traffic conditions at low speeds to transport supplies and equipment.

Provides exceptional customer service, and upholds high service standards using respect, courtesy, professionalism, and teamwork.  Takes initiative to solve problems quickly but recognizes when to seek assistance to resolve issues.  Collaborates in a professional, supportive, and proactive manner.  

Adheres to safety regulations and standards.  Promptly reports any observed workplace hazards, and any injury, occupational illness, and/or property damage resulting from workplace mishaps to the immediate supervisor.  Adheres to established standards of actively supporting the principles of the EEO program and prevention of sexual harassment.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Requirements

Skills and Knowledge:  Knowledge of seasonal gardening tasks and procedures, for example: how to apply fertilizer evenly to avoid underfeeding or burning plants.  Ability to detect plant diseases and unusual or poor plant growth.  Ability to use a variety of hand and power operated garden tools and equipment such as seeders, spreaders, edgers, hedge trimmers, pruning shears, and sprayers.   May require the operation of a motor vehicle, requiring a driver's license.

Responsibility: Supervisor provides specific instructions as to the nature of work to be performed and ensures compliance. Completes work with little review during progress.  Follows directions from supervisor or manufacturer in measuring and mixing fertilizer or chemical agents.

Physical Effort: Work requires frequent walking, standing, pushing of carts and wheelbarrows, bending and stooping.  Ability to climb ladders to prune or trim vegetation. Lifts and carries objects up to 45 lbs independently and objects over 45 lbs with assistance.

Working Conditions:  Work is done outside and incumbent is subject to discomfort from long periods in hot sun and sometimes to chilly or rainy weather.  Exposed to dirt, dust, mud and sometimes to common household-type chemical sprays and dusts.  Must wear protective clothing.  Chance of minor injuries such as bruises, cuts, scrapes, and occasional possibility of broken bones from falls. 

Requirements

Evaluations

Required Documents

How to Apply

All applications must be submitted online via the MCCS Careers website:

Resumes/applications emailed or mailed will not be considered for this vacancy announcement.  To be considered for employment, the application or resume must be submitted online by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing date of the announcement.

If prior military, upload a copy of your DD214 Member 4 Copy as an attachment to your MCCS careers profile under ¿My Job Applications¿ https://careers.usmc-mccs.org/psc/hprd/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=78520&PostingSeq=1

Required Documents to be considered for Military Spousal Preference 

Military Spousal Preference may be requested for positions NF-3 and below, Crafts and Trades (NA, NL, NS), and Child & Youth (CY) positions.

1. Spouses must meet the minimum qualifications posted in the job announcement.
2. Spouse Preference eligibility begins 30 days before the military sponsor¿s reporting date to the new duty location.
3. Spousal Preference applicants hired in a flexible position will not lose their spousal preference eligibility until converted or hired into a regular full-time or part-time position or is within a 60-day period of receiving new PCS Orders.
4. Spousal Preference applicants must provide a copy of the PCS order identifying a spouse's authorized move and the sponsor's reporting date to the new duty location. If the spouse is not listed on the PCS orders, the spouse must provide documentation (i.e. marriage certificate, valid military ID, etc.) verifying marriage prior to PCS orders (must have been married to the military sponsor before relocation to the new duty station).  Complete the online application and attach a resume.
5. Spouses with current or prior Federal service, submit a copy of the most recent performance appraisal rating.

NOTE: It is the applicant's responsibility to submit at the time of application the documents required to be considered for Military Spousal Preference.  Please verify that information required has been uploaded/submitted, legible, and accurate.  To check the status of your application or to return to a previous or incomplete application, log into your MCCS user account and review your application status. MCCS Human Resources will not modify applications, resumes, or answers submitted by any applicant.

Required Documents to be considered for Transition Assistance Program

Selective Service Registration: If you are a male born after December 31, 1959 and are at least 18 years of age, government employment requires that you must register with the Selective Service System, unless you meet certain exemptions. You must be able to show proof of registration or your exemption, as part of the required suitability background investigation.

VACANCIES MAY BE FILLED BY METHODS OTHER THAN THE MERIT STAFFING PROGRAM WHEN IT APPEARS THAT THE BEST QUALIFIED PERSON CAN BE OBTAINED FROM OTHER SOURCES.
 

Note: To check the status of your application or return to a previous or incomplete application, log into your MCCS user account and review your application status.